Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Lead the Pensions & Savings AI and Automation Engineering practice, defining technical strategy, delivery standards, operating models, roadmaps, and talent development. Build reusable AI agent and automation platforms, establish secure lifecycle controls, and guide solutions from experimentation into production. Partner with product, business, technology, data, risk, and enterprise AI teams to deliver measurable value. Provide hands-on technical leadership, oversee suppliers and investment, and build an inclusive, high-performing engineering organization.

AECOM is seeking ground engineering, geotechnical, engineering geology, tunnel, and structural engineering professionals at all levels across the UK. Responsibilities include delivering ground engineering and tunnelling projects, applying relevant technical standards and design codes, supporting projects from concept through operation, leading teams appropriately to experience, and contributing to innovative infrastructure solutions. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, project experience, willingness to travel throughout the UK, and a clean driving licence.

Leads engineering teams delivering bespoke laboratory equipment projects, servicing, calibration, repairs, and maintenance. Manages resources, schedules, budgets, customer relationships, proposals, technical documentation, facilities coordination, HSE compliance, and financial reporting. The role also supports equipment design, assembly, troubleshooting, technical sales, and laboratory operations.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within FanDuel’s Customer Product Engineering domain. Owns technical strategy, customer outcomes, availability, scalability, operational excellence, third-party integrations, regulatory requirements, responsible gaming systems, production support, hiring, budgets, and long-term architecture. Requires leadership of managers and senior engineers, experience with high-volume transactional systems, regulated environments, cloud infrastructure, modern back-end development, AI-assisted development, and executive communication.

Lead engineering across two global billing, payments, and API domains, owning technical and product strategy, cross-squad initiatives, stakeholder alignment, and people leadership for two teams. Diagnose systemic and organizational issues in a high-integrity data environment where reliability and reconciliation are critical. Drive customer-focused solutions, apply AI and LLMs for customer impact, manage hiring and performance, and support a shared global platform with configurable market-specific edges.

Leads the global Site Reliability Engineering strategy and operating model. Establishes SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, observability, automation, toil reduction, incident management, governance, and continuous improvement. Partners with engineering, infrastructure, security, and technology operations teams to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, and performance. Builds and develops high-performing SRE teams while driving operational transformation across critical technology platforms.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for an AI product delivery pod, translating product outcomes into secure, scalable, production-ready solutions. Leads internal and supplier engineers, oversees architecture, design and code reviews, establishes engineering standards, and selects appropriate AI approaches. Designs governed systems with auditability, provenance, human oversight and operational readiness, while mentoring teams and presenting technical progress to senior stakeholders.

Graduate engineers complete a three-month bootcamp followed by nine months on live banking projects. They gain experience across the engineering lifecycle, including coding, testing, deployment, Agile practices, data, AI-assisted tools, and modern engineering methods. The programme provides mentoring, certifications, and global collaboration opportunities, with support toward a permanent engineering role after successful completion.

Eight-week Engineering internship involving real business projects, Scrum ceremonies, agile and AI-assisted engineering practices, networking, and learning across banking technology functions. Interns contribute to engineering work, develop technical and problem-solving skills, collaborate with experts, and may progress to the graduate programme. The role requires a penultimate-year STEM student targeting a 2:1, with strong communication, analytical, data, experimentation, adaptability, and learning abilities.

Own Perk’s global go-to-market engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, automation roadmap, and commercial outcomes. Build production workflows in Clay, Salesforce, and code; automate prospecting, selling, account management, and AI-assisted processes; establish engineering standards; and lead a senior distributed team. Partner with revenue leaders to translate pipeline and productivity problems into scalable technical solutions with measurable impact.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Manages engineering teams of up to 10 people, guiding technical and product vision, talent development, performance, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with clients, product managers, and client success teams to deliver platform solutions and drive technical roadmaps. Requires engineering management experience, strong communication, Agile and lean development knowledge, and familiarity with modern technologies including Kafka. The role involves 4–6 business trips annually and hybrid office work three days per week.

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

Leads and develops a global security engineering team protecting cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure. Sets security architecture and threat-modeling strategy, drives policy-as-code and shift-left automation, governs cloud and container hardening, oversees vulnerability and software supply-chain management, and partners on detection and incident response. Collaborates with Engineering, DevOps, and Product leadership to embed secure-by-design practices while supporting product delivery.

Leads the regional Engineering team through operational leadership, performance improvement, strategic planning, business growth, client engagement, value proposition development, talent management, budgeting, and forecasting. The role develops high-performing teams, wins new client work, supports specialty strategy, and deputizes for the Head of Engineering.

Examiners mark external Level 1/2 Technical Award in Engineering assessments during the summer 2027 marking window. They apply mark schemes consistently, attend remote standardisation meetings, report malpractice or safeguarding concerns, maintain confidentiality, and submit results accurately under tight deadlines. Candidates need relevant Level 3+ qualifications and recent teaching, assessment, training, or occupational engineering experience.

Moderates engineering qualification assessments by reviewing centre-marked work, applying quality assurance standards, producing reports, managing sampling activities, attending standardisation meetings, and providing constructive feedback. The role requires engineering or design technology expertise, teaching or assessment experience, strong knowledge of assessment processes, and the ability to work independently during the April–August 2027 moderation period.

Leads technical development and business growth for AECOM’s Ground Engineering team. Responsibilities include reviewing geotechnical data, analyses, and design calculations; advising clients through project stages; overseeing project schedules, budgets, and delivery; leading multidisciplinary work; developing client relationships; supporting tenders; and mentoring junior engineers. Requires chartered status, civil engineering or geology qualifications, strong UK ground-condition knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, stakeholder management, networking, and team leadership.

Leads SRE and LiveOps teams in improving reliability, performance, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence for cloud-native SaaS products. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, including architecture reviews, debugging production systems, automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, SLOs, technical debt prioritization, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Platform, Security, Product, Support, and Operations teams.

Leads the M&S Cloud Platform engineering team building AI engineering platforms, reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and developer self-service capabilities. Responsibilities include technical strategy, platform ownership, architecture, DevOps, reliability, vendor management, recruitment, talent development, and line management of senior engineers. The role contributes code while driving engineering excellence, operational reliability, strategic alignment, and improved developer experience across more than 200 engineers and 30 applications.

Leads the team building the SRE function and owns its technical vision, platform capabilities, reusable tooling, pipelines, frameworks, and developer experience. Manages senior engineering staff, drives recruitment and retention, aligns technical strategy, oversees reliability and operational excellence, partners with vendors, and contributes hands-on code. The role requires strong SRE, cloud, software architecture, DevOps, testing, reliability engineering, and people leadership experience.

Leads the AI Engineering platform team, setting technical direction and building reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and agentic workflows. Owns platform reliability, developer experience, production operations, vendor partnerships, technical strategy, and OKRs. Manages Staff and Senior Engineers while driving recruitment, retention, engineering excellence, and cross-functional alignment. The role requires hands-on software development, AI coding expertise, cloud and system architecture knowledge, DevOps practices, testing, reliability engineering, and strong people leadership.